New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1887-07-13
THE PARRICIDE.
An Legitimate Ofspring's Con
fassion.


Frenzy-Before the Bar Of Justice the Cul-
prit Tells How He Was Spurned and
Abandoned.
French of Guy de Maupassant by E. c. Wag-
gener.I
The advocate had pleaded insanity.
How otherwise explain the strange
crime2 They found them one morn
ing, two corpses, elasped in each
others arms, and lying in the marsh
near Citation, carried there by the
Seine-this man and woman, rich, well
known, in the prime of life, and mar
ried only the preceding year, though
at the time of the marriage the wife
had been a widow more than three
years. No one knew of them having
any enemies, and they had certainly
not been robbed. 1t looked as if they
might have been thrown into the river
from passing barge, after having
been struck and stoned or killed with
some sort of sharp iron instrument.
#sa@ inquest had
4 Ss.S FAILED TO DEVELOP
Ae-ew, and the boatmen of the neigh
5orhood, though closely Intercepted,
knew nothing either. The inquiry was
! about to be abandoned as useless, when
a young carpenter from an, adjoining
5Fillage By the name OF Georges Louis,
nIcknamed lie Bourgeois came into
Chaton and gave himself up as the
murderer
To ali their questioning, however, he
only replied that he had known the
man for two years, the woman for six
months; they We're Gu stomers OF his and
frequently came to him to have. ant iques
furniture repaired, because he was
snoWn to be exceedingly skillful at the
work.
'.And your reason for killing them?:'
Simply because wanted to kill
hem, and they were unable to draw
rom him another word.
The prisoner. said the village Cos
I sips, was a natural child. put out to
Nurse and then abandoned. But wheth-
er he was or not. he had no other name
than Georges Louis, or LIE Bourgeois,
a title ironically bestowed upon him by
his comrades because of his rare inteli-
gence and native refinement, so out of
keeping with their own tastes and his
surroundings. He was certainly re-
markedly adriot at the work of ioinery,
the trade he had adopted He also
earevd a little in wood, and was known
10 be an ardent partisan Of Conamunis-
! tic doctrines, perhaps even Nihilist,
an Unsuitable reader of romantic adven-
lures and bloody dramas, and a ready
speaker at the public meetings OF work
men and peasants. Such was the his
tory of Georges Louis, q murder by his
own confession, at the time the trial
opened.
"a The advocate, as stated at the out
set, had pleaded insanity. It was the
only possible explanation OF the crime,
and OF the fact that this workman had
killed two Of his best patrons, wealthy
and liberal to a fault in all their deal
tngs with him, for he had admitted
J baving done for them a great deal of
expensive work in the past few months,
''Wanted to Kill tkemn Yes, Insanity
i L
fixed idea Of a strange, irresponsible
being to aYenge himself upon indiyid-
: uals, for his hatred of the mass showed
itself in every detail OF this uncalled-
for murder, and the advocate made a
skiILful allusion in support OF his theory
to the name LIE Bourgeois, bestowed by
his comrades upon the abandoned one.
at is not sarcasm9n he cried, .sa
sarcasm calculated to excite still more
this unfortunate youth, this child with
out father and without mother, this en-
{ thusiastic republican, DIS he was known
to be? Perhaps ne was more than this
perhaps he was al member of the
political party that until the present
time was
TREATED TO BULLETS,
Dagger-thrusts and sentences to trans
: portation for life-a party in which
arson is a principle and murderer a
simple means. These doctrines, as
now proclaimed in open meeting, have
| destroyed this man. He has listened
TO red-handed republicans, to women
even-yes messieurs. to Women-cry.
ing for the life of Gambetta, for the
life OF Grevy, until his mind has be-
come upset, his reasons dethroned and
he has thirsted for bIood-yes. fol
blood. But it is not upon him that the
blame should be laid; it is not he upon
whom condemnation should fall-it is
the Commune-the Commune that is
L the cause of all
As the advocate concluded murmu1
of applause ran through the Court
room. Every one felt that he had won
his cause, and the Prosecuting Attor-
ney attempted no reply.
Accused said the Judge at last. adj.
dressing the customary question to the
prisoner, accused have you ought te
say in your defence p''
The prisoner, small man in statue,
white as linen, and with eyes gray,
clear and intelligent, rose to his feet,
the strong and sonorous voice, coming
from SO frail a body, changing at once
the opinjon that had been formed n